In little over an hour, Donald J. Trump prompt america ought to default on its money owed for the primary time in historical past, injected doubt over the nation’s dedication to defending Ukraine from Russia’s invasion, dangled pardons for a lot of the Capitol rioters convicted of crimes, and refused to say he would abide by the outcomes of the subsequent presidential election.
The second-term imaginative and prescient Mr. Trump sketched out at a CNN town-hall occasion on Wednesday would characterize a pointy departure from…